worth about a billion dollars quotes from Paul bite the creator of gmail now a partner at Y Combination this guy knows what he’s talking about when it comes to startups so I think there’s lot of truth to this quote so in short how are startups worth billions of dollars they’re worth that much if they go from zero in revenue to a lot of revenue and cash flow very quickly in the near future this type of evaluation is dependent on incredibly high growth rate assumption sand a big turnaround in margins as a company goes from losing money to suddenly making a lot of money so the discount rate has to be very high to account for this this scenario does make sense according to evaluation.

principles but only if you’re willing to accept a lot of risk and also only if you’re relatively well diversified if you just invest in one startup forget it you’re going to lose all your money so you have to have a pretty well diversified portfolio for the step evaluation and the step of strategy to ever make much sense How to Value a Company in Easy Steps, How to Value a Business- Valuing a Business Valuation Methods Capital Budgeting Welcome back to our second part of Capital Budgeting, which is Valuing a Business.

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